Handle for carrier bags



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United States Patent O HANDLE FOR CARRIER BAGS Arno Finke, Lengerich,Germany, assignor to Windmller & Hlscher, Lengerich, Germany, a Germanfirm Filed Aug. 22,1958, Ser. No. 756,635

1 Claim. (Cl. 229-54) The purpose of the present invention is to createa handle for a carrier bag made of paper or the like, which is morecomfortable to use than the handles for such carrier bags hithertocustomary.

The chief drawback in the conventional U-shaped handles for carrier bagsis that their central or grip portion is too wide, having unnecessarilythe same width as that needed for adequately securing the leg portionsof the handle to the side walls of bag.

The object of my invention is to provide a handle which is easy andcomfortable to grasp without impairing its strength and which can beeasily manufactured. According to my invention the handle being foldedfrom a at strip of material such as paper has in its central or gripportion only one half of the width of the strip and of its leg portionswhich are secured for example glued to the side Walls of the bag.

The invention Will now be further described with reference to theaccompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 shows in front View a planar collapsible carrier provided with apair of handles,

Fig. 2 shows a side view thereof,

Fig. 3 shows a section along line A-B of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 shows a section through one of the handles along line C-D of Fig.3,

Fig. 5 shows in larger scale a particularly sectional view, along lineE-F of Fig. 4, of one of the two handles,

Fig. 6 shows a sectional View along line G-H of Fig. 5,

Fig. 7 shows a top view of the strip of foldable material from which ahandle is made,

Fig. 8 shows in still larger scale a perspective view of the left halfof said strip `in an intermediate folding position, and

Fig. 9 shows a front view, partly in section, of said half of thefoldable strip in nal folded position.

The bag 1 made of paper or other suitable material is provided withU-shaped handles 2 and 3 each secured with its leg portions 5, 6 to oneside Wall of the bag adjacent the mouth thereof.

-Each handle is made from a hat strip of foldable ma- ICC terial, suchas paper, having the width b as shown in Fig. 7. The central portion ofsaid strip is folded along a longitudinally extending center line 4'dividing said strip in portions 4a and 4b each having the width b/2`These portions 4a and 4b after having been folded into the same planeform the grip portion of the handle.

The end portions 5 and 6 of the strips after having been folded form theleg portions of the U-shaped handle and they are attached in customarymanner, for example by gluing to one side wall of the bag near itsmouth. These end portions 5, 6 are folded along a V-shaped fold havingits vertex in the respective end points of said center line 4' andcomposed of the fold arms 10, 15 and 11, 16, respectively, which includean angle of and which symmetrically diverge toward the neighboring endportion of the strip. Each leg forming end portion 5, 6 is folded backinto the plane of the folded middle portion of the strip along one of`said fold arms 10 and 11, respectively, and along the other fold arm15, and 16, respectively, and a folding line 17 and 18, respectively,which extends away hom the vertex end of the fold arm 10 or 11,respectively, vertically to said center folding line 4.

Thus the grip portion of the handle formed by the folded halves 4a and4b of the central portion of the strip is made easier to grasp and tohold without impainng the strength of the handle.

While one embodiment of my invention has been shown and described indetail to illustrate the application of the principle of my invention itwill be well understood that the same may be otherwise embodied withoutdeparting from such principles and without avoiding my appended claim.

What I claim as my invention is:

In combination with a planar collapsed paper or smilar bag having a pairof opposed side walls extending adjacent each other: a U-shaped handleconsisting of a strip of foldable material and secured with its outerleg forming portions to one of said side walls adjacent the mouth of thebag; said strip folded lin its middle portion along the llongitudinalcenter line thereof; each of said outer leg forming portions of thestrip folded along a V- shaped fold having its vertex in the end pointof said center line of said middle portion; the arms of said V-shapedfold including an angle of 90 and symmetrically diverging toward theneighboring end of the strip; and each leg forming strip portion foldedback into the plane of the folded middle portion along the fold armsituated in said plane and along the other fold arm and a folding lineextending away from the vertex end of said iirst named fold armvertically to said center line.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS2,603,408 Crary July 15, 1952

